7 horrible Tornado In History

Tornado is a rotating column of air that forms strong relationship between cumulonimbus cloud or in the rare event of Cumulus cloud base to the ground. Tornado appeared in many sizes but are generally visible condensation funnel shaped clear the narrow end of it that touches the earth and is often encircled by a cloud of lead debris.

Generally tornadoes have wind speed 177 km / h or more with an average reach of 75 m and cover several kilometers before disappearing. Several tornadoes that reached wind speeds of more than 300-480 km / hr have more width than a mile (1.6 km) and can survive on surfaces with more than 100 miles.

Tornadoes are more common in the United States. Tornadoes generally occur in Canada also the south, south-central and eastern Asia, east-central Latin America, Southern Africa, northwestern and central Europe, Italy, western and southern Australia, and New Zealand.

Here Tornado terdasyat in recorded history.

1.       Tri-State Tornado - March 18 1925

For more than three and a half hours, the Tri-State Tornado became the most deadly tornado tore up the U.S. mainland. This tornado killed 700 people and destroyed more than 15,000 households in the region of Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. After this disaster, the local government started developing tornado warning system that is expected to push the number of deaths if disaster came again.

2.       Natchez Tornado (May 7, 1840)

This storm occurred on May 7, 1840, Natchez tornado touched down in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, and Adams County, Mississippi. Most of the deaths occurred in the Mississippi River, since the tornado tracked for some time directly on the river. Tornadoes death toll due to more predictable than the officially registered, as many people killed are hard to find. Records indicate that 269 people were killed in the River and 100 agricultural farm. losses reached $ 1,260,000.

3.       St.Louis Tornado (May 27, 1896)

St. Louis Tornado (May 27, 1896) became one of the deadliest in the history of the United States, landing about 6 miles west of Eads Bridge in St. Louis. From the northwestern tip of Tower Grove Park, a complex combination of tornado and downburst widened to more than a mile and moved to this timur.Tornado sweep the whole house, factory, salons, hospitals, factories, train yards, churches, and causes the total over $ 10 million in damage. death toll of 137 lives.

4.       The Tupelo Tornado (April 5, 1936)

Tupelo Tornado appears near Coffeeville, Yalobusha County. That tornado leveling hundreds of homes and killed the whole family. A movie theater turned into a hospital with a popcorn machine used to sterilize instruments. One hundred and fifty cars carrying boxes from the city to serve as temporary housing, an estimated 233 people were killed and hundreds others injured, damage is assessed $ 3,000,000.

5.       The Gainesville Tornadoes (April 6, 1936)

A pair of large tornado moved east-northeast through downtown Gainesville, Georgia.

Around 750 houses destroyed and 254 badly damaged. Damage reached $ 12.5 million. Largest death toll in a single building occurred in the Cooper Pants Factory. Storey buildings, many with young workers, collapsed and caught fire, killing around 70 people. At that time 203 recorded death toll, 40 people still missing. In the city center, several buildings drift, multi business and place some factories crumbled and collapsed.

6.       Woodward Tornadoes (April 9, 1947)

At the Woodward tornado killed at least 107 people, mostly in the northern part of the city, where about 1,000 people are injured, and hundreds of people were killed. more than 100 city blocks were destroyed, and more than 1,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Two mile wide damage and losses at more than $ 6,000,000.

7.       The Amite / Pine / Purvis Tornado (April 24, 1908)

Chance of 55 more people were killed and 400 people wounded, most of Purvis razed. Only seven of the 150 houses in the town reportedly stands, the loss amounts to more than U.S. $ 500,000....